Reviews

Laura is brilliant, thoughtful and insightful. I’d encourage everyone to listen to these difficult but important conversations. She is such an advocate for those who have been systematically silenced.

Laura is so very good! I love her passion. She is extremely intelligent and so informative. I am learning about coercive control. Learning about cases the media doesn’t report about. She has the most soothing voice yet being so professional and matter of fact and I love it all! My favorite podcast! Thank you for being the voice of these women and educating us all of these behaviors. Give her a listen. Xoxo

Also I like the guests and their respective expertise. I can‘t recommend this podcast enough

I can’t stop listening as Laura unpicks events and behaviours leading up to the tragic events she covers in these podcasts. Women and girls loose their lives needlessly at the hands of violent men. And the system in place to “protect” them, simply doesn’t. Laura’s insights to how these cases happened brings dignity back to the victims and highlights the work that needs to be done to truly protect women and children.

You always tell it like it is! I look forward and enjoy the insight you bring to us! I hope to contact you once I have more info on a 19 year old girl that was run over multiple this by her BF. Police arrived she said she jumped out of the truck. She later died and police closed the case! I know she will teach me what I need to know to help bring the truth forward!!

Without a doubt, Laura is the most professional and the most compassionate crime analyst. There is a major goal behind every episode of her podcasts and YouTube videos and that is to protect the public from intruders, to protect women from the unimaginable by educating them through fascinating analysis of cases that have concerned people globally. I am personally grateful for the time and efforts she invests in these podcasts.

Laura provides a public service as an expert in coercive control and an advocate for women. Her experience and passion come through loud and clear as she retells victim stories and alerts listeners to legal and policing pitfalls. I love that she addresses her audience as “lovely listeners”. It adds warmth and personality to the serious topics that she discusses.

I’ve just discovered this podcast , not sure how but loving it . Have binged it over the weekend and am fully engaged . Thanks for a crime series that’s not sensationalist 🙏❤️

She’s taught me so much. I love that she honors the victims and makes prevention key.

Loving the positive female representation of true crime in this podcast.

Love her- she is so qualified, and so intelligent, she speaks with clarity, directness and strength, she teaches us, as she invites us to come along, because she’s not stopping. She has a job to do.

Love this show. Really in-depth examination of crimes against women from the perspective of someone who is not afraid to call out everything.

My favorite thing Laura has ever said was that crime analyzing has a lot to do with what isn’t there. What isn’t said. What isn’t seen. This is the crème de la creme of true crime podcast.

I’ve been following Laura for almost 2 years now from real crime profile. Her assessments of situations and personal dynamics are always comprehensive, spot on and digestible. I’ve learned so much about coercive control, psychopaths and spotting warning signs of domestic abuse. As Laura says “always trust your instincts!”

I came across Laura Richards unexpectedly after listening to an interview she did as part of some bonus content to an audiobook to which I’d been listening. Her interview was quite timely as I’d just taken an assignment as a Victim Advocate and I started searching out the research on the DASH. When I found out she had a podcast, I immediately started listening. I wasn’t sure at first, because it was a bit rough in the beginning (presentation wise, not content). But to be fair, I can’t think of a single podcast that starts off immediately without some glitches. Laura is at her best when she’s interviewing or speaking freely. Her passion for the topics are immediately evident. Her level of knowledge and professionalism is extensive. This isn’t a show designed for entertainment, but education, which is why it’s one of my absolute favorites.

The most comprehensive breakdown of corrosive control prevalent and evident in the police body cam footage. I am very thankful for the amazing piece of work done in this series about Gabby. I would LOVE to see Laura as the expert witness in the Petito case against the Moab police department allowing the jury to eat at the table of her labors on this case… her experience in the field as one who has served. They get it backwards. It’s critical people begin to understand the how and why they so often get it wrong despite believing they are right and are doing a good thing. Officer Pratt reveals he knew he got it wrong, yet he desires for the public the citizens to believe him a good man. I don’t. He is a controlling man controlling he narrative and the scene in partiality and favor for the aggressor. Such a shame he has been promoted, he is not worthy to serve the people due to his own “man issues” rendering him incapable of making right judgement and action. This case was and remains maddening and yes, if you do not get angry at what was done to Gabby then check your humanity card something is missing. Dreadfully missing.

Why do I have to scroll down 100 episodes to get the latest episode?

I am floored to learn about the Colonial Parkway murders (I know Laura doesn’t like this phrase but I wasn’t sure what else to call it) and Route 29 stalker. I live in Virginia and have frequented many of the locations Laura discusses, travelled 29 almost every weekend as a university student and I had no idea that many of these crimes occurred. The work that Laura is doing to educate the world is just unparalleled. Thank you!!!

Great podcast. Laura takes you through thoughtful, victim-centric deep dives into specific cases, all while shining a light on systemic biases that shape how these and other cases are investigated and talked about in the media. I love her expert insights on predatory stalking, coercive control, domestic violence and other gender-based violence. She also has terrific guests. Her segment on Stockholm Syndrome with the brilliant Jess Hill absolutely blew my mind – I’ve been sending it to everyone.

A very enlightening podcast on coercive control at many levels of human interactions and victim centered analysis of criminal cases by a very experienced and knowledgeable professional. Thank you Laura Richards. Especially for respectfully listening to everyone who is part of the episodes.

Thoughtful, informative, and educational, The Crime Analyst is a fantastic podcast run by one of the top experts in coercive control

I’m grateful that I’ve never ended up as a subject on this podcast. I was coercively controlled by a man in my early 20s, and I’m thankful I had the means and support to leave him. Laura Richard’s research and insight about abusive men and the women they hurt is extremely valuable, and if this podcast existed back then I would have left him earlier. Thank you for giving me insight into that previous relationship, Laura! I greatly admire the work you’ve done in both the media and legislation.

I would highly recommend this podcast. It’s so refreshing to hear calm, professional insights with no dramatic music swelling in the background, and overly dramatic vitriolic nonsense - just the facts & insights based on years of experience. Wonderful interviews & so much time spent on cases deserving attention. Love the insights into coercive control as I lived through an abusive relationship & only woke up to the situation after 20 years. A psychologist once said to me, as I struggled to understand why it took so long for me to see what was happening, “you don’t know what you don’t know until you know it. Then you can never go back and unknow it.” Ms Richards does such a wonderful job of explaining & underlining this & every time I doubt my decision this show helps to remind me I made the right decision & did what I had to do to get out. I found out about this podcast & the Youtube channel through Grizzly True Crime & I haven’t stopped listening & catching up on older episodes since.

This is so much more than a true crime podcast. Laura Richards puts the victims first and shows the warning signs and extent of male violence against women and how law enforcement and society needs to do better.